This week in our school community: 24 April 2026
We keep all our students in our prayers so they are filled with the Holy Spirit to do their very best.
Welcome back to Term 5, it really does feel like the start of the summer term with warmer weather and clearer skies. We have already had a busy week, especially for our sixth form students with Year 12 starting their mock exams and Year 13 practical exams taking place. Year 11 are also beginning their public examinations in earnest now with MFL speaking exams and practical subjects launching the exam season. We keep all our students in our prayers so they are filled with the Holy Spirit to do their very best.
To reflect on the joy of the Easter story and resurrection, here is Bishop Bosco's vision for our diocese:
‘In the Gospel, Jesus reveals the shape of his mission: good news to the poor, liberty to captives, sight to the blind, freedom for the oppressed, and the year of the Lord’s favour. His mission is real. It touches wounds. It restores the human person. It gives hope. That must also be the shape of our life together.
As we continue shaping our deaneries and parishes in communion for mission, that mission can be named clearly in three parts. First, the worship of God: above all in the sacred liturgy and the Holy Eucharist, in private prayer and adoration, in the sacramental life of the Church, and in that whole life of grace by which we are drawn back to the Lord and taught to give him glory.
Second, the handing on of the faith in its fulness: the Gospel proclaimed, the faith of the Church taught and handed on with clarity and confidence, hearts and minds formed in truth, and disciples shaped to know Christ, to love his Church, and to bear witness to him in the world. Saint John Henry Newman reminds us that education is never simply the passing on of information. It is the formation of the person in truth, so that heart may speak to heart and learn to recognise Christ and follow him.
Third, charity and the service of the poor: not as an optional extra, but as a necessary fruit of the Gospel, so that in the vulnerable, the forgotten and those who struggle, we may recognise the face of Christ and love them with his own compassion. Worship, faith and charity belong together in one Christian life. Together they express the mission of the Church.’
We take up Bishop Bosco's mission to continue forming young minds and hearts so that each person receives an education for the whole person - academically, personally and spiritually. We live out our motto daily at St Gregory's - In Christ We Flourish.
